According to unofficial election results, Oklahomans cast 1,564,573 ballots for president this year. That's nearly 4,000 more votes than were cast in the previous presidential election. Registration also grew by 183,098 since 2020, reaching almost 2.5 million Oklahomans who were eligible to vote.
On Thursday, State Superintendent Ryan Walters sent a memo to Oklahoma parents and school leaders highlighting policy priorities after Tuesday’s election results.
Just a little under 600 immigrants, both legal and illegal, serving sentences for crimes in Oklahoma prisons will likely be a part of the first rounds of President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans.
Republican Rep. Stephanie Bice won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Oklahoma on Tuesday. She defeated Democrat Madison Horn, a cybersecurity expert from Oklahoma City. Bice, a former state senator from Edmond,
The solicitation followed Walters’ mandate that a Bible be placed in every Oklahoma public school classroom and that all schools teach from the Bible.
Two of the three Oklahoma Supreme Court justices on the ballot during Tuesday's election will retain their seats in what turned out to be one of the closest races in the state.